{"id":1294,"date":"2016-02-22T09:49:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T09:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/mediatico\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2016-02-22T10:49:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T10:49:05","slug":"caribe-pop-starter-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/mediatico\/2016\/02\/22\/caribe-pop-starter-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribe Pop Starter Pack: A Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today <\/em>Medi\u00e1tico presents a manifesto written by cultural critic and video artist\u00a0Nicol\u00e1s Gerardi translated by regular Medi\u00e1tico contributor\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Arroyo<\/a>\u00a0(Principal Teaching Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Warwick)\u00a0<\/span>who blogs on film at<\/em> notesonfilm1.com<\/a>. The translation, like the original text<\/a>\u00a0(reprinted below in Spanish by kind permission of the author) is illustrated with still images and gifs from a super short film by\u00a0<\/span>Andr\u00e9s Far\u00edas Cintr\u00f3n<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(<\/em>Tiznao<\/a>), also reproduced with kind permission from the directo<\/em>r.\u00a0Far\u00edas Cintr\u00f3n is a young filmmaker from the Dominican Republic who is also exploring the imaginary world of writer Rey And\u00fajar<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Caribe Pop\u2019 is about catastrophe and calamity, about the unsustainable luck of bearing reality and savouring it to its last molecule. Of wanting to leave your country because it\u2019s corrupt and corrupting, a minor place, subjected and subordinate, because at heart you\u2019re a stupid subject of the unexpected, of misfortune and misappropriated luck, of richness, of disaster, of decadence, addicted to rice, grains, pig, of counting every penny.<\/p>\n

\"carbepop\"<\/p>\n

Caribe Pop is a form of surviving tied to the unusual, to the imported, to the foreign and exogenous, but also tied to the familiar, the occult, the darkness. It\u2019s no coincidence that Masons have so much power, that the Rosicrucians, the Opus Dei, the Narcos and the Evangelicals have so much power.<\/p>\n

\"carbepop-2-1\"<\/p>\n

To be Caribe Pop is to experience misfortune after fortunate forgetfulness, to not have memory, to howl and to hunger. To transvestise into a million unrealisable fantasies, see TV and know you\u2019re never going to have what\u2019s shown, that you don\u2019t live the American dream that for you is North American. To be Caribe Pop is to see Tiznao\u00a0<\/em>[1\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p03cqvy8<\/a>] and know that he\u2019s your cousin who\u2019s indebted to loansharks, there\u2019s fat numbers guy with the gold, and the mess you don\u2019t want to return to, that you dance and don\u2019t dance, that time is a convention and cataclysm a future.<\/p>\n

\"carbepop-3-1\"<\/p>\n

To be Caribe Pop is to come and go but without moving, to cry every night, to be pained by your roots, to want a better future that\u2019s always in the future. It\u2019s a Judeo-Christian moral that you can steal from every house. It\u2019s about the devastating fact of living like a parasite.<\/p>\n

There goes Nicolas Bourriaud saying that Latin America throbs strongly to the beat of unusual behaviour, always pulsating, always incomprehensible, erased by a thousand greeds, obliterated by a million memories, addicted to sacrifice and to ritual, to pain and to danger.<\/p>\n

To be Caribe Pop is to find oneself again and shine; to hope that chance will bring luck, get dollars, do business and support one\u2019s Mom, which is sacred. To live through paternal abandonment, lack sustenance, hurdle through bad choices, and choose reading as escape from furore. To forget the bad times, abortions, aggressions, mistreatments, stabbings; the key is to look straight at the horizon and blink only for a moment.<\/p>\n

\"carbepop-4-2\"<\/p>\n

To be Caribe Pop is to have gall whilst mortified, to beat a bitter cacao of events into a froth of excitement, to seal one\u2019s mark in the heavens, to speak a Castillian invented in jail. To summarise, to be \u2018Caribe Pop\u2019 is to enjoy the masochism of failure, to give our time moderate doses of love; to use Anglicisms because our language is reduced through domination, to dream of New York\u2019s tropical sun when it\u2019s -15\u00b0, to use the metric system and not the imperial, to accept our impertinent faith as the key to life. To play the lottery as a solution to poverty, to be marginalised and on the margin, to accept telenovelas<\/em> are the only system that shapes us.<\/p>\n

\"tiznao\"<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9s Farias made the introduction, a ritual of initiation, he showed me the \u2018literary and performative universe of Rey And\u00fajar\u2019 from where comes Tiznao<\/em>, and we spoke of the Narco states, of the eternal torment that is to divide the island of man in two. We shared the faithful belief in the hurricane, and our tropical innocence persuades us because we are Caribe Pop and disaster will fall in love with us.<\/p>\n

Nicol\u00e1s Gerardi (translated by Jos\u00e9 Arroyo)<\/p>\n

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\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n

El\u00a0Caribe pop<\/em><\/p>\n

El\u00a0Caribe pop<\/em>\u00a0se trata sobre cat\u00e1strofe y calamidad, sobre el insostenible azar de soportar la realidad y gozarla hasta su \u00faltima mol\u00e9cula. De querer salir de t\u00fa pa\u00eds porque es corrupto y corruptor, un lugar menor, sometido-sometidor, porque en el fondo eres un est\u00fapido subordinado de lo inesperado, de la desdicha y de la dicha malversada, de la ricura, de lo atroz, lo decadente, adicto al arroz, a los granos, al cerdo, a contar cada centavo.<\/span><\/p>\n

El\u00a0Caribe Pop<\/em>\u00a0es una forma de sobrevivir atada a lo inusitado, a lo importado, a lo externo a lo ex\u00f3geno, pero tambi\u00e9n a lo propio, a lo ocultista, a lo oscuro. No es coincidencia que los masones tengan tanto poder, que los rosacruces, que los opus dei, que los narcos que los evang\u00e9licos tengan tanto poder.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ser\u00a0Caribe Pop<\/em>\u00a0es experimentar la desdicha desde la dicha de olvidar, no tener memoria, aullar y ayunar. Travestirse en mil fantas\u00edas irrealizables, ver la televisi\u00f3n y saber que nunca lo vas a tener, que no vives el sue\u00f1o americano que para ti es norteamericano. SerCaribe Pop<\/em>\u00a0es ver\u00a0Tiznao<\/a>\u00a0y saber que es tu primo que debe centavos, que ah\u00ed esta el gordo del oro, y el burdel al que no quieres volver, que bailas y no bailas, el tiempo una convenci\u00f3n y el cataclismo un futuro.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ser\u00a0Caribe pop<\/em>\u00a0es ir y venir pero nunca moverte, llorar todas las noches, que te duelan las ra\u00edces, querer un futuro mejor siempre en el futuro, es una moral judeo-cristiana que te puedes robar de cualquier casa, se trata del fulminante hecho de vivir como un par\u00e1sito.<\/p>\n

Por ah\u00ed pasa Nicolas Borriaud diciendo que Am\u00e9rica Latina late fuerte por su inusitado comportamiento, siempre inusitado, siempre incomprensible, borrado de mil c\u00f3dices, obliterados de millones de memorias, adicto al sacrifico y al rito, al dolor y al peligro.<\/p>\n

Ser\u00a0Caribe Pop<\/em>\u00a0es rebuscarse y brillar, esperar que el azar brinde un fruto, conseguir d\u00f3lares, hacer el mercado, mantener a la mai que es lo sagrado. Vivir el abandono paterno, carecer de sustento, sobre volar las malas opciones y elegir la lectura como escape a todo el fermento. Olvidar los malos momentos, abortos, agresiones, maltratos, pu\u00f1aladas, la clave es mirar recto el horizonte y pesta\u00f1ar solo un momento.<\/p>\n

El\u00a0Caribe Pop<\/em>\u00a0es jugar al vivo pero muerto, batir el chocolate, amargo cacao de los hechos, firmar una de lacra en el firmamento, hablar un castellano inventado en la c\u00e1rcel. En resumen el\u00a0Caribe Pop<\/em>\u00a0es disfrutar el masoquismo del fracaso, administrar en dosis moderadas el amor a nuestra era. Usar anglicismos porque nuestra lengua se queda corta y rebajada-dominada, so\u00f1ar con el sol tropical de NY a -15\u00b0 grados, usar el sistema m\u00e9trico y no el sistema imperial, asumir nuestra impertinente fe como clave para la vida. Jugar la Loter\u00eda como soluci\u00f3n a la pobreza, ser marginado y marginal, aceptar las telenovelas como \u00fanico sistema formativo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9s Far\u00edas hizo el ritual de iniciaci\u00f3n, me mostr\u00f3 \u201cel universo perform\u00e1tico y literario de Rey And\u00fajar\u201d de d\u00f3nde nace Tiznao y hablamos sobre los narco estados, y sobre la tormenta eterna que va a dividir a la isla de los hombres en dos. Compartimos la fiel creencia en el hurac\u00e1n y nuestra inocencia tropical nos persuade porque somos\u00a0Caribe Pop<\/em>\u00a0y el desastre se va a enamorar de nosotros.<\/span><\/p>\n

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